When the 2020 Mid West Cup season kicks off later this month, it'll be the start one of the most anticipated season in recent memory.
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It's expected eight teams will compete for the Blayney Citizens' Cup this year - the biggest turnout in years.
The four teams that competed in 2019 have returned - Lithgow Bears, CSU, Portland and Orange Barbarians - while 2018 grand final winners Blackheath have the numbers to return, as has Kandos. The Oberon Tigers have dropped back from Group 10 and the Orange United Sports Club is set to make its debut.
There was also the potential for Lithgow Shamrocks could return for the upcoming season, with the team folding in 2020 prior to winning three Group 10 premierships in the 1980s, however it seems their entry was blocked by Group 10.
The Mid West Cup can trace its history back to 1913, when it was originally called the Blayney Citizens' Cup (however the Mid West Cup premiers are still awarded the Blayney Citizen's Cup trophy).
Inscribed on the trophy is Blayney Football Union, as the competition was originally a rugby union competition before a boom in rugby league popularity in the 1910s and 1920s saw it convert to the 13-man code.
Neville was the first premiers in 1913 and Newbridge won the second edition in 1914 but due to the outbreak of World War One, the competition discontinued.
It was reorganised in the 1920s and that decade was dominated by a host of Blayney clubs including Bears (1922), Blues (1923), Milita (1924 and 1925) and Waratahs (1926).
The trophy's whereabouts remained unknown from 1933 to 1947, but the competition begun to expand beyond the Blayney region in the 1950s and 1960s incorporating teams from Rockley, Carcoar, Kandos and Cullen Bullen.
By 1970 the competition had been rebranded the Group 10 Unattached Football Competition with Blayney Bears (later promoted to Group 10), Kandos, Carcoar, Mitchell College (now CSU) and Wallerawang all winning premierships.
In 1990, the competition was given its current name - the Mid West Cup - and has also been referred to the New Era Cup and Centennial Coal Cup in recent years for sponsorship reasons.
The likes of Kandos - who have reformed for the 2020 season after a one-year hiatus - is the oldest team that remains in the competition, with the now defunct Carcoar Crows the most successful team in the competition's history with 13 premierships.
Over the years several smalls villages have also been represented in the competition including the likes of Barry, Mandurama, Millthorpe and Woodstock, with all four teams now defunct.